- From: Joseph Kesselman <keshlam@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 13:03:10 -0400
- To: www-dom@w3.org
>All children of the relevant >entity are copied as children of the entity reference node. Right so far. >someEntityRef.getLastChild().getNextSibling() will always be null Trivially true. anything.getLastChild().getNextSibling() will always be null; that's part of the definition of last sibling. >is it the XPath >implementation's responsibility to translate getNextSibling() to >getParentNode().getNextSibling() in the case of nodes that are children >of entity references? Yes, the XPath data model and the DOM data model are somewhat different. It's the XPath implementation's responsibility to extract the information it needs from the DOM and present it in a manner that makes sense for the XPath user. We're considering adding some convenience features to DOM Level 3 which will make obtaining an XPath-style view of the data a bit easier, but it can be done with the existing DOM features. The important point is that a DOM Node is not an XPath Node, though either may be expressed in terms of one or more instances of the other. ______________________________________ Joe Kesselman / IBM Research
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